Dittersdorf

[ dit-erz-dawrf; German dit-uhrs-dawrf ]

noun

1. Karl Dit·ters von [kah, r, l , dit, -, uh, r, s f, uh, n], 1739–99, Austrian violinist and composer.

Example Sentences

Woodfield makes a convincing case that Dittersdorf organized a press campaign against Mozart’s allegedly artificial and overcomplicated creations.

From The New Yorker

Furthermore, Dittersdorf went to the trouble of writing a German-language satirical opera entitled “The Marriage of Figaro,” in which the character of Cherubino becomes a caricature of Mozart: immature, flighty, vain, addicted to dancing.

From The New Yorker

Beyond that, Mr. Watkins said, he is game for almost anything, although he conceded, “I haven’t got a particular yen to do the complete quartets of Dittersdorf or Boccherini.”

From New York Times

In the mid-1930s, Kreisler astonished the musical world�and embarrassed critics�by confessing that for years he had been palming off a whole series of his own compositions as the works of such classical composers as Vivaldi, Martini, Couperin, Dittersdorf, Pugnani.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Haydn, Boccherini, Dittersdorf, played by a string quartet beneath the castle's crystal mirrors and chandeliers.

From Time Magazine Archive